Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$8.98 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 47 pages, text generally very good with some dust marking around the edges, bound in original paper covers, worn, torn and heavily marked with areas of loss at the edges. A poor copy
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ tight condition hardback light dustsoil hint of stain
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.23 + shipping
Description: pp48; 8vo, cloth spine, paper covered boards, sl. soiled. Spine extremities worn, corners knocked. Owner name and bookplate. . Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
Seller: Louella Kerr Books, Petersham, NSW, Australia
James Morton. William Morris: An Appreciation. Chiswick Press, London, 1901.
Price: US$66.73 + shipping
Description: 'As read before the XL Club, Glasgow, March 4th 1901. Rebound with blue cloth retaining the original paper covers. Slight shelf wear to cloth binding, contents clean and bright, there is a small brown mark in the lower margin of some pages. pp48. Overall a good copy.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, cloth spine, original grey boards. 47pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, 26th April 1901. Spine slightly faded, boards a little grubby and worn to extremities. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper, otherwise contents clean. (h3)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed at the Chiswick Pres with the Golden type designed by William Morris for hte Kelmscott Press. Binding tight and clean but a bit bumped and worn at the extremities.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.76 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Unread copy with unopened pages. Physical description; 47 pp. Contents; Art and its procedures. A lecture delivered in Liverpool in 1888 -- The arts and crafts of today. Being an address delivered in Edinburgh in Ocotber 1889. Subjects; Morris, William 1834-1896. Arts and Crafts Movement, The. Chiswick Press. Decorative arts. Art Philosophy. Lectures. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$151.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo., [i], 47pp., later half crimson calf gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, a little faded and scuffed but sound and internally fine. Two addresses delivered in 1888 and 1889. Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type designed for the Kelmscott Press.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Unread copy with unopened pages. Physical description; 47 pp. Contents; Art and its procedures. A lecture delivered in Liverpool in 1888 -- The arts and crafts of today. Being an address delivered in Edinburgh in Ocotber 1889. Subjects; Morris, William 1834-1896. Arts and Crafts Movement, The. Chiswick Press. Decorative arts. Art Philosophy. Lectures. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
William Morris. Art and Its Producers. Longmans and Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Description: An uncommon limited edition of William Morris' essay on Arts and Crafts. With the bookplate of prior owner Percy Withers.This work was produced by the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott press, and finished on 26th April 1901. It was published by Longmans and Co.A beautifully printed example of this essay by the important textile designer and activist William Morris. In a quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light shelfwear to the boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown, Percy Withers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$194.25 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 47. Uncut in original cloth-backed bds. (light wear & soiling, small abrasion on front cover). First Edition. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 350 copies printed, (108) printed pages. Printed in black & red with wood-engraved borders, initials and decorations, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper with silk ribbon marker. Ink inscription on front free end paper ("Kenneth Loveless F.S.A. Hoxton, 16.vi.1962"). 12 x 14 cm. Original full vellum, lettered in gold on backstrip & Press device in gold on upper cover , uncut pages, top edges gilt (a light overall patina from handling). Kenneth Loveless MBE (for services to Morris dancing), besides being an Honorary Rear-Admiral, President of the International Concertina Association, Squire of the Morris Ring of England, and County Commissioner for Boy Scouts, had the loudest voice in the Church of England. Holy Trinity, Hoxton, in London, consecrated in 1848, was very much a local congregation. All the people who came could walk to the church in five to ten minutes. Indeed, if any people from elsewhere on the "spiky" church circuit came, they were allowed three Sundays, after which Loveless said: "It has been good to see you. Now you will return to your parish church, where you are needed." Loveless was Benjamin Britten's inspiration for the Voice of God and performed the part for the production at All Saints Church, East Finchley in April 1959 - a community project which was much closer to Britten's original intention for the production of the work than the professional premiere the previous year at the Aldeburgh Festival. The initials and ornaments designed and cut on wood, printed and bound by H D and H G Webb -a Caradoc press book. Harry Webb was a landscape and architectural painter, etcher and wood engraver, who exhibited at the Royal Academy several times. Heska Dora Webb and her husband Harry George Webb founded the Caradoc Press (named after a hill near Heska's Shropshire birthplace) in December 1899, at their home in Priory Gardens, Bedford Park, Chiswick, West London, where they had lived from about the time of their marriage in 1889. In establishing a private press, they were among a small band of amateur printers who were inspired by the example of William Morris and his Kelmscott Press & produced 20 books and two volumes of the art magazine The Acorn. They executed all the printing and wood engraving themselves, usually in red and black inks on hand-made paper. They intended to re-open after the Great War in which he served and were cutting wood engravings for a book on Provence, but this never happened & the Caradoc Press only ran from 1899-1909. Tomkinson 4. WorldCat locates 4 copies in the UK and 36 elsewhere. Scarce, probably due to poor sales rather than edition size.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xxxvii, 308. Original publisher's pale green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page, "To William Lang, from G. Bernard Shaw." William Lang (1852Ð1937) was a senior ophthalmologist, and enthusiast for and collector of Arts and Crafts furniture, silverware and books. He lived in Chiswick as a young adult, and ministered professionally to members of the West London socialist and literary set. He was on dining terms with William Morris and W.B. Yeats and Shaw also consulted him professionally.In his introduction to Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant haw enjoyed the paradox of LangÕs diagnosis of his vision as ÒnormalÓ: Lang had explained that only about 10% of people have this, which Shaw jumped on as proof that it was the others who were wrong ÒMy mindÕs eye, like my bodyÕs was ÒnormalÓ it saw things differently from other peopleÕs eyes, and saw them better. slight fading and tanning to covers with inner hinge slightly tender, otherwise close very good. Bookplate on the front endpaper of M. Bernard Thorold, a well known book collector of P. R. B. book and private press.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$2566.53 + shipping
Description: Nine works bound in eight. 4to. Publisher's linen backed drab boards, printed paper spine labels with replacements tipped in at the front of each volume, housed in four later plain black cloth slipcases. Sunning to the spines, some occasional spotting and edge wear to the boards, the spine labels a little creased and worn, otherwise an attractive set. A collection of Morris' works and translations printed using his own Golden type, designed for the Kelmscott Press. All of these works were all originally published prior to the founding of the press in 1891, this being the first time that they ever appeared in this font and in this uniform, utilitarian binding embodying Morris' aesthetic. They were issued at intervals between January 1901 and June 1902 without a uniform title. However a publisher's notice tipped into the front of the penultimate volume clearly indicates that they were originally conceived of as a set, though they are mostly seen individually these days. Walsdorf suggests that the production was limited to 300 sets. Walsdorf, 84.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$4812.25 + shipping
Description: [Literature/Essays] LIMITED EDITION, finely printed in two colours in the Golden Type of Kelmscott Press. Eight volumes. Quarto (29 x 21cm), bound in publisher's blue linen-backed boards, printed paper title labels to spine, spare labels tipped-in, printed prospectus, publisher's note and contemporary postcard loosely inserted. Elegant booklabel of John Charrington to pastedown, contents fine, some leaves unopened, spines sunned, boards tanned; very good. One of just 300 sets made for sale. Printed on the same Kelmscott Press paper (with the daisy watermark) and bound in the style of 'The Golden Legend', this set was produced to satisfy the late author's wishes to print the full series of his works at his press, "no pains being spared to make them worthy of a place beside The Kelmscott Press volumes which are now so widely sought". The present set was almost certainly purchased by subscription upon publication. John Charrington (1856-1939) was a prominent art collector, curator and Hon. Keeper of Prints at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (where much of his collection now resides) [source: British Museum].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom